Aug

Friends With $50 Million Benefits

George Soros, né Schwartz György, is being sued by a Columbia student. Adriana Ferreyr, a former Brazilian soap star and 28-year-old GS student, is after Soros for $50 million because he did not deliver on his promise of buying her an apartment worth $1.9 million — that’s what they teach you in Econ.

After their breakup in 2010, the “frisky octogenarian” (New York Post) subsequently ended up in bed with Adriana, only to tell her, post-coitus, that he’d given the apartment to his new girlfriend. Ms. Ferreyr claims to have been subjected to “a malicious campaign of extreme and outrageous harassment and intimidation”, and “emotional distress, battery and fraud.” (BBC) She says Soros attacked her after she reacted badly to his confession of bestowing the apartment on another. She just wants (more than 25 times) what she was promised. After all, it’s “only 1/7000” of his wealth! (Daily Mail)

Although Ferreyr is listed as a student of Columbia’s Economics department, the New York Times reports that her lawyer said she is studying philosophy. No word yet on how this could affect the case.

We should seriously petition to remove such BS schools such as GS and Continuing Education from the large umbrella of Columbia University. Seriously. I cannot stand GS scums bein' like "OH I GO TO COLUMBIA :)" WOW.

Oh shut up. For one thing, CC had never been the crown jewel of Columbia. The university's famous because of its graduate and professional schools; CC's only gained prominence in the last 10 or 15 years, as undergraduate admissions has become so competitive it's now a status symbol.

More importantly, GS is much closer to CC and SEAS than Continuing Ed. Continuing Ed is an umbrella that lets non-Columbia students (whether they're in high school, go to another university, or want to go back to school later in life) take individual Columbia courses or pursue certification in the kinds of non-liberal-arts majors usually associated with community college—things like actuarial science and sports management.

GS students are full-time students who take the exact same course load as students in CC and SEAS. On average, they're older than CC students, have far more interesting life experiences, and have higher GPAs. But please, continue to feel superior because you went to a better high school and got a higher SAT score.

Who has the higher GPAs? I would like to see a chart with info on course load and GPA between SEAS CC and GS. Of course the powers that be would never publish such a chart, so you are pulling numbers out of your ass. Or maybe I am mistaken. Prove me wrong.

My SAT scores were all above the Columbia median; my extracurriculars were all top-notch; but because I wasn't as well-heeled as you I couldn't go straight to college after HS. I'm going to go to Columbia and be as loud as I want.

Also, a 28-year-old Brazilian supermodel dating George Soros? GS students are far more interesting, even more worthwhile, than you elitist fucks.

I admire Barnard women (what up ladies?) more than I do any CC fuck (specifically you cocksucker), but you're entitled to your opinion so go fuck yourself, loser. I have tons of GS friends and none of them ever got busted selling weed to undercover cops, business skills. Major props for sleeping with the old man, but now it's time to hook up with Van Owen, holla.

Can anyone confirm if this lady was in History of Philosophy II in Spring 2010? I have no stake in the answer, but happened to see a full-length photo on the cover of the Post and now just had my mind blown by this article. Thx y'all.

so I didn't really interact with her, but she seemed smart, and reasonably engaged. I do remember that we covered some early modern philosophers that aren't usually discussed because they were women, which was cool.

Pay some respect to the tradition! You shouldn't be an early-adapter by saying CE '13, it's "SEAS '13"!!! I can understand incoming freshmen referring to themselves as CE '15, but a rising junior marking himself a CE '13? tsktsktsk Shame on you!

I love Professor Mercer, but I just happened to take her in Art Hum this last summer session--I don't know how she is when she's in her Philosophy element. But she is so cool.

I also find this student REALLY annoying (but to be fair, I don't know her on a personal level, she could be a lovely human being), so picturing Professor Mercer shutting her down, for me, is just... tops.

Also, undergrads all need to stop hating on each other. We're all here. Some of us deserve to be, and some of us don't--but we're all here, and the smart and the less smart will distinguish themselves appropriately once they try to speak up in class, and I'm sure the occurrence of \less smart\ happens frequently in all undergrad schools.

Yeah, the undergraduate schools are waging a vicious war against one another. We cannot stand that there are other undergraduate schools than the one we are in. Consequently, you will see battles waged on every part of campus between GS, SEAS, and CC.

Since when does Bwog single out and publish sensationalist articles about individual Columbia students? And then suspend your policy about not deleting personal comments like that second one about her appearance)? She could be suing for ten times as much, but that doesn't make this Bwog page look any less like cyberbullying. Have a little class.

She was in my Financial Econ class and she's got to be the stupidest person I've ever met. The class had to turn around to her twice and explain basic concepts that she could not seem to get.

On the other hand, GS does tend to take students that are more "interesting" than intellectual or academic. GS students should be required to meet the same intellectual standards for acceptance as CC students are if they're going to have a degree that they can feasibly pass off as the same.

I mean the ENTIRE class had to take twenty minute spans, twice, as everyone in the class tried to explain truly basic financial concepts that no one else had a problem with, and she couldn't get even after being spoonfed . We had to stop the class for her.